A once-privileged physics lab faces uncertain future
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The 100 physicians and engineers who work at Centro Atomico Bariloche in Bariloche, Argentina, are concerned that the research and training institute may be dissolved. Its patron, the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), was downsized and its independence from government control reduced.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Physics finds a middle ground at Washington meeting
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Research findings announced include: a new MRI technique that images through air spaces in the lungs; new measurement of the gravitational constant G; and the most sensitive search yet for an electric dipole in an atom, which has already disproved the simplest version of supersymmetry theory.
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Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Physics: applause for a high wire act
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French researcher Georges Charpak won the 1992 Nobel Prize for his work on the proportional wire chamber, a device which allows researchers to track charged particles and is used by nearly all particle detectors.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1992
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